- “Labour slammed over axing Free Speech Act” – Labour has been blasted over the Education Secretary’s decision to axe the Free Speech Act, reports Guido Fawkes.
- “Does Labour care about free speech on campus?” – Bridget Phillipson’s decision to shelve the Higher Education Act neatly sums up Labour’s attitude to higher education, says Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator.
- “Labour has just betrayed a generation of young people” – Bridget Phillipson’s decision to cancel the commencement of the Higher Education Act brings shame upon the Labour Party, according to Claire Fox in the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s war on free speech” – Censorship is about to return to the campus, says Andrew Doyle in UnHerd.
- “Labour frontbenchers have blocked thousands of new homes” – A Mail on Sunday investigation reveals that 14 members of Labour’s frontbench have together blocked the building of tens of thousands of homes in their constituencies.
- “How Labour plans to justify its tax hike” – The conceit that the Government has uncovered a black hole since taking office is just a wheeze to justify planned tax rises, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Kemi Badenoch to run for leader but Braverman may be a non-starter” – As surviving big-name Conservatives prepare to contest the leadership, infighting and blue-on-blue attacks have already begun, writes Tim Shipman in the Sunday Times.
- “Kemi Badenoch accuses rivals of tricks over ‘dirty dossier’” – Kemi Badenoch has claimed skullduggery is at play in the Conservative leadership contest after a “dirty dossier” of online comments she made nearly 20 years ago was circulated to newspapers, according to the Times.
- “Boris Johnson will not back any Tory leadership contender” – Boris Johnson is not planning to endorse any candidate in the Conservative leadership contest, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Chief online harms regulator quits in blow to big tech crackdown” – The U.K.’s chief online harms regulator has stepped down after barely more than a year, says the Telegraph.
- “‘Macron must be smouldering with humiliation’” – The final act of the opening ceremony was a triumph, but by then it was far too late, says David Jones in the Mail.
- “Tommy Robinson ‘could face jail’ over banned film screening” – Tommy Robinson could face jail over screening a banned film to thousands of his supporters at a rally in Trafalgar Square, says the Mail.
- “Mosques which hosted Islamist extremist preacher investigated by charity watchdog” – Four mosques are being assessed by the Charity Commission after hosting an Islamist extremist preacher, reports the Telegraph.
- “Hate cleric raises £3 million to create Islamic homeland on Scottish island” – A firebrand Muslim cleric who has been accused of spreading hate has raised more than £3 million to buy a small British island and turn it into his own Islamic state, reports the Mail.
- “Israel says 12 killed in rocket attack on Golan Heights football pitch” – Fears of all-out war between Hezbollah and Israel are rising after at least 12 people, including children, were killed in a rocket strike from Lebanon on the Golan Heights, according to the Times.
- “A crisis of democratic legitimacy” – In Law & Liberty, Theodore Dalrymple weighs in on the crisis of political legitimacy in Britain and France in light of the recent elections.
- “Esther McVey warns Labour will farm out future pandemic decisions to WHO” – Esther McVey says that Labour is planning to allow key decisions on how to respond to future pandemics to be “farmed out” to the WHO, according to the Telegraph.
- “Norwegian randomised trial finds masks associated with fewer sniffles but not fewer Covid cases” – A Norwegian study suggests that masks can reduce sniffles a bit (but only if you believe they do) without reducing Covid cases or a need for healthcare, writes Guy Gin on his Substack.
- “Richard Hirschman keeps finding terrifying clots” – On Substack, Bill Rice Jr. has shared alarming new images of the terrifying “white, fibrous clots” being discovered by embalmers and morticians across the globe.
- “Bird flu vaccines are fast approaching” – On Substack, Dr. Meryl Nass reacts to news that the FDA can now fast-track bird flu vaccines without standard testing – and grant manufacturers liability waivers!
- “The week in numbers” – On the TTE Substack, Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson return with a numerical rundown of the week’s top health stories.
- “FBI says unequivocally that Trump was hit by a bullet” – The FBI has released a statement declaring that President Trump was hit by a bullet, not shrapnel, at his rally in Pennsylvania, according to Modernity.
- “German publisher drops Vance’s book Hillbilly Elegy over alliance with Trump” – German publishing house Ullstein Buchverlage has sparked outrage by deciding against a reprint of the sold-out German translation of Hillbilly Elegy, the 2016 autobiography of J.D. Vance after Trump picked him as running mate, says Brussels Signal.
- “The return of Right-wing cancel culture” – In Quillette, Josh Allan discusses the Right’s attempt to cancel people on the Left in the wake of the attempted Trump assassination.
- “Ed Miliband says Labour will honour pledge of £11.6 billion in climate aid” – Ed Miliband aims to re-establish the U.K. at the centre of international climate discussions, with Labour honouring a pledge of £11.6 billion in overseas aid for the climate crisis, according to the Guardian. Couldn’t Labour use that to help fill the £20 billion hole in Britain’s finances?
- “Heads should roll over the electric car fiasco” – Hundreds of billions of euros, dollars and pounds have been pumped into the EV industry by policymakers. It is time they were held accountable, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Jeremy Clarkson reignites feud with BBC’s Packham in savage rant” – Jeremy Clarkson has waged a fresh war of words with Chris Packham following Packham’s moan about Taylor Swift’s carbon footprint, reports GB News.
- “Two ‘female boxers’ set to compete at Paris 2024 were previously disqualified from Women’s World Championship for having ‘XY chromosomes’” – Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan are scheduled to compete in Olympic women’s boxing despite past questions surrounding their biological sex, says Reduxx.
- “Father’s letter begging top surgeon to cancel trans operation” – According to the Mail, a distraught father begged in vain for a leading trans surgeon not to remove his 20 year-old daughter’s breasts, telling him he was about to destroy her life. He didn’t get a reply and his daughter had a double mastectomy.
- “Woke NHS training scheme slammed by hospital whistleblower as employees ‘scared to speak out’” – Staff at a West Midlands NHS Trust have been left scared of speaking out after being told to “admit they have white privilege” as part of a training scheme, reports GB News.
- “The Left now has no opposition to its culture war against Britain” – Woke warriors and control freaks appear emboldened to shut down debate and trash our history, says Simon Heffer in the Telegraph.
- “In a Barbie world” – Mattel has produced the ultimate symbol of their corporate captivity by people who should never be allowed inside a boardroom – a blind Barbie, writes Dr. Roger Watson in the New Conservative.
- “Manchester Airport CCTV footage released” – The Manchester Airport CCTV footage has now been released, and it backs up the statement by Greater Manchester police – the Muslim suspects did attack the police first, and they responded appropriately.
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